Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

@Snatcher October would be the time they'd announce the final fighter, so they're probably going to do an October direct this year.

@Snatcher Why does there need to be a Direct? Nintendo have shown all they are releasing for the year at E3 and any new third big party announcement seems to be revealed in shadow dropped trailers like both the announcement of Dying Light and World War Z. The last Smash Bros reveal could be done at any time on its own. Doesn't need to be attached to a Direct or anything.

@GrailUK That GTA collection I am assuming isn't happening this year and seemingly not happening prior to GTA V releasing February 2022 so they could wait till much later to officially reveal that.

I assume Nintendo will hold some form of Direct in February next year to tie everyone over until E3 with reveals and releases.

@FragRed generally, it'd be nice to have a direct to know what's coming in the future, and look at games that aren't releasing until next year, but we don't exactly need a direct, since we know what's coming soon anyways.

@FragRed Well um, I did say we don't have to have one, But I do think there is at least a few more stuff they could show off, or not.

@VoidofLight Yep that is my thinking. And if there is anything needed to update everyone on regarding games coming this year, a simple trailer will do across social media. I would prefer Nintendo to do a couple of big blowout Directs each year to reveal the big releases for both halves of the year and use social media to do everything else.

@Snatcher Not sure what else they could show off that needs a Direct. Trailers will do the trick.

@FragRed Ehh.. I'd much rather them do big directs every few months rather than just dropping a trailer on something like twitter. "Twitter directs" are pretty annoying, given that not everyone has twitter.

@VoidofLight I meant to use trailers on social media as updates on games that were revealed at a Direct, not reveal new games.

I prefer non live Direct like Nintendo have ever done by shadow drop Direct so I can skip the video directly just only want to find the games i want to know and avoid the games i hate to see.

@Anti-Matter I get where you are coming from. Me personally, really enjoy watching along with everyone on this site. There are some cool chaps and chapettes here (I can only apologise for lowering the cool factor lol.)

I hate when they drop a direct that's not live, since you can skip to the stuff that interests you.

I can't stand when they shadow drop Them, Its so annoying, One I can't injoy it with yall on here, Two, Spoilers! nuff said.

Shadow dropping an actual Direct doesn’t help anyone. Why watch the Direct whenever you stumble upon it when you can just see all the trailers from it that will be immediately circulated across various sites and social media? Also because Nintendo don’t announce it, it almost always means it’ll be a mini and therefore of little excitement to most.

@VoidofLight Uh what? If anything that's a benefit. I don't want to sit through the stuff I don't care about. Not to say I like shadowdrop Directs, but that's the wrong argument to make against them.

Usually what I don't like about shadowdrops is that I come into the conversation fairly late. Directs always tend to air during the early morning in my timezone, which is just about the worst time for them (only thing worse is late night), so by the time I've seen them, I've missed so much of the conversation surrounding the announcements.

I think he was being sarcastic

Hard to tell sarcasm in plain text.

@Vortexeo Eh, somewhat. I enjoy the experience of live announcements, since then I can watch them with my friends over platforms like discord, where as I can't really do that when they drop them instantly on youtube. I enjoy the feeling of not knowing what's up next, instead of just skimming through the direct and jumping around to the points of interest.

I live and breathe this mantra. For example, if there's a major sporting even that I miss, I'll always look up the result instead of watching it on playback. The thrill of unpredictability is really exciting, in scenarios where you genuinely have no idea what's next. When compared to watching something you know's already happened, subconsciously that really hurts my enjoyment of something.

Yeah, I get that, @VoidofLight .... For other things somewhat like it, I'll often look around later & then there's sites with lists, while youtube has individual trailers for each thing but it isn't as good as a proper live watch, which gets put up in my other forum with a live chat thread!

Given Nintendo likes celebrating anniversaries nowadays, maybe they're celebrating the 10th anniversary of Directs with a Direct. October 21st 2011 was when the first Direct happened.